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This Sources Sought/Market Survey Notice is being conducted by the Network Contracting Office (NCO) 17 at 124 E HWY 67 Suite 100, Duncanville, Texas 75137 to identify sources that are capable of providing Merative Micromedex Database for the VA Heart of Texas Health Care Network (VISN17), Dallas, TX 75216.

Specification requirements: requires online web access to a product that shall provide, via one interface and one search platform, access to comprehensive databases. Databases shall provide drug information, dosing and therapeutic tools, and drug identification relevant to VISN 17 staff to assist them in providing safe and effective care to Veterans. This includes:

Comprehensive medication information which includes information regarding FDA and non-FDA indications

Summaries of clinically relevant primary literature within the resource (more than just a reference to a source)

Provide primary literature references and summary data in the resource for comparative efficacy and off-label indications

Contain references to abstracts, tertiary electronic sources and full text articles

Be web based with internet/intranet capabilities.

Provide a uniform search tool and user interface throughout the product.

Updated on a daily basis by a review board of allied health professionals.

Provides content on acute care, alternative medicine, drug information, toxicology, teratogenic medications, patient education, and occupational health and safety including material safety data sheets.

Ability to "brand" both web and printed materials with practice site logos and contact information.

Provide drug assessments to the user based on manufacturer monographs and peer reviews of primary literature.

Provide references to primary literature to support recommendations and/or indications for therapy.

Provides side-by-side comparative drug evaluations with primary literature summaries to allow time effective comparison of more than one agent with one search. Includes concise reviews of trials or case reports including key characteristics of study design such (number of patients, p-values, population included).

Provide users with a multitude of web-based calculators designed to meet the needs of all healthcare providers.

Comprehensive information available about drug use in special populations including renal impairment, hepatic impairment, geriatrics, dialysis, obesity and other relevant disease states that will vary by drug.

Provide consumer appropriate printable health information on medications, procedures, and disease states. This health information should be available in at least English and Spanish languages.

Provide a drug interaction tool that is capable of entering multiple drugs and allergies for a given patient with output of entry that includes drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug-ethanol, drug-lab, drug-food, drug-tobacco, drug-pregnancy and drug-lactation interactions.

Drug Interaction tool will provide severity of interaction

Adverse drug reactions will include percentages of patients affected by the interaction where available and include case reports.

Provide a tool for medication identification based on any information available to the provider (i.e., color, imprint, formulation, etc.)

Provide administration with tracking tools to include stats on particular components used by the organization.

Accessible from a smart phone or tablet for point of care decisions.

Provide an IV compatibility database that is comprehensive, searchable, and which may be drilled to obtain more information or references.

Ability to compare several pharmaceutical products side by side in table format.

Provide pharmacy compounding stability information

Poison control information including antidote and supportive care recommendations

Provide 24/7 technical support

Provide webinar training as needed.

ITEM #

ITEM DESCRIPTION

QTY

UI

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Microdex Premium Bundle.

1

EA

3. Background:

Background: The VA Heart of Texas Health Care Network (VISN17) requires online access to a product that shall provide, via one interface and one search platform, access to comprehensive databases. Seeking an authorized vendor to provide the service(s) identified in Table 2 above.

Warranty and Support:

The warranty and support must cover all components of the requirement in accordance with standard manufacturer s commercial warranty

Delivery Location:

VA North Texas Health Care System

4500 South Lancaster Road

Dallas TX, 75216

If this is a service your business can provide, please respond to this Sources Sought Notice by 10:00 AM Central Time on Monday, 13 February 2023.

The intent of this notice is to establish sources to define the procurement strategy (e.g set-aside, sole source, unrestricted) for a solicitation that VA intends to post soon. Interested contractors are requested to respond in accordance with the following:

5.1 Please respond to this notice if you can provide the items listed in the table in the background section above. In the response, please cite your business size status.

a. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response.

b. DISTRIBUTORS: You must provide proof that you are an authorized distributor. VA does not accept gray market items.

Equivalent products may not be accepted. Offerors that propose Equivalent products may not be considered during the acquisition process.

Please note that VA is particularly interested in determining the availability of Small Business Manufacturers. If your company is a small business manufacturer or distributor, please respond to this notice.

Vendors are requested to submit estimated market research pricing with their responses. The estimated pricing will be considered when determining the procurement strategy for the future solicitation. (e.g. if CO determines that capable small businesses cannot provide fair and reasonable pricing, then the solicitation will not be set-aside).

7. Responses should include:

(1) Business Name

(2) Business Address

(3) Point of Contact

Name

Phone Number

E-mail Address

(4) SAM UID Number

(5) NAICS code

(6) Business Size: SMALL or LARGE

(7) Type of Business: SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN OWNED (SDVOSB), VETERAN OWNED (VOSB), 8A, HUBZone, WOMAN-OWNED (WOSB), etc.

(8) Letter stating OEM authorized dealer, authorized distributor or authorized reseller for the proposed equipment and/or services if applicable

(9) GSA/FSS Contract Number if applicable

All businesses eligible to provide this service are encouraged to reply as this information may be used to determine potential set-asides for the above-noted requirement.

Send responses to Ivan Torres, ivan.torres1@va.gov

DISCLAIMER: This notice is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this notice.